Office Network Cabling
An office network gets judged on the day it changes. If every desk has a labelled port and a documented panel, moving a team, adding a meeting room or splitting a floor is a small job. If it does not, every change becomes a cable hunt and a risk of taking the wrong link down. We cable offices so changes stay cheap — and we do it before the ceiling closes, or around the staff when the office is already occupied.
What's typically included
- Desk, workstation and cluster drops for new fit-outs and expansions
- Meeting room and boardroom cabling, including video conferencing and displays
- Voice and data patching for IP phones
- Wi-Fi access point cabling and placement
- Per-floor telecom rooms and riser backbones between floors
- Moves, adds and changes as teams shift
- Certification testing, labelling and as-built records
The two moments that decide your cost
The first is fit-out. Cabling before the ceiling closes and the furniture arrives costs a fraction of doing it later, and it is the only point at which you can place outlets without compromise. The second is documentation. With labelling and as-built records, every future move is planned work; without them, every move is an investigation.
Both decisions are made early and paid for later, which is why we push clients to spend the thinking time up front rather than the money afterwards.
Working in an occupied office
Most of our office work happens in buildings that are already full of people. That means the disruptive work — drilling, pulling, opening ceiling tiles — is scheduled outside business hours, with the noisy stages bunched together rather than spread across a week of distraction. Staff arrive to a working floor rather than a building site.
Meeting rooms are where offices notice
Video calls are the first thing to fail when a room is cabled as an afterthought: a single port where four were needed, a display with no wired link, an access point placed for the corridor rather than the room. We cable meeting rooms for how they are actually used, which usually means more copper than the room had originally and better wireless coverage in the same spot.
Open plan offices and where the cable goes
Offices move. Desks shift, teams merge, a meeting room becomes four hot desks. How the horizontal cabling is arranged decides whether that costs a patch change or a new installation:
| Approach | What it is | Where it fits |
|---|---|---|
| Home run to the telecom room | Every outlet runs back to the floor cabinet | Small floors and fixed layouts |
| Consolidation point | A passive interconnection point in the horizontal cabling, at least 15 m from the telecom room | Open floors that get rearranged |
| Zone cabling with a MUTOA | A zone box, or a multi-user outlet serving a cluster of desks | Large floors and hot-desking |
The 15-metre rule on a consolidation point is not arbitrary. It keeps the connection point far enough from the telecom room that it is actually serving the floor, rather than being a second cabinet in disguise.
Either way the cable stops being the variable. With a documented panel and a labelled outlet, adding four desks is a patch and a drop instead of a project, and the person doing it does not have to trace anything.
Where we work
We install and certify this work across Montreal, Laval, Longueuil, the Québec City area and the surrounding regions — see our service areas.
The work involved
Related work: structured cabling, Cat6 & Cat6a, fiber optic installation, Wi-Fi access points, CCTV & access control — or see all services.
Office Network Cabling questions
Yes — and it is the cheapest moment. We work to the fit-out schedule so cabling is finished before the ceiling closes and the furniture lands.
Yes. Drilling, pulling and ceiling work are scheduled outside business hours so the working day is not disrupted.
Yes. Conference rooms get the wired links the displays, cameras and speakers need, plus wireless coverage in the room itself rather than just the corridor.
Yes. Once the backbone and panel exist, adding desks is a patch and a drop, and we keep the labelling consistent each time.
Yes. Every link is certified and every port labelled, with as-built records handed over as part of the job.
A passive interconnection point inside the horizontal cabling, defined in TIA-568 and located at least 15 m from the telecommunications room. It lets an open floor be rearranged without pulling new cable back to the cabinet.
A multi-user telecommunications outlet assembly: one outlet position serving several desks through longer patch cords, introduced for open office layouts under TSB-75.
On a small floor that is the cleanest answer. On a large open floor the cable count, the tray fill and the cost of every future move all become worse, which is what consolidation points exist to fix.
Get a free site survey
Tell us about the building and what has to be connected, and we will come out, look at the space and put together a written quote. Call (438) 817-4587 or use the quote form.